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...Boston, the Yardling who caught Comeford's fourth period heave with two Quaker defenders clinging to him, was promoted to Team B, in place of ace punter Wally Flynn. Boston's thumb is still in a cast, but the injury didn't seem to brother him Saturday...
...eight running plays, tossed four passes, and worked a double shift inside the Penn 20 . . . Ironically, the team stalled on the two and the three but scored from the 27-yard line . . . George Boston, the Freshman who caught Comeford's six-pointer, made his Varsity debut with his thumb in a cast . . . It will take the movies to reveal how he managed to hold the ball with two defenders on his back...
...dean of women at Oberlin College (Ohio), her post before she went to Wellesley, she had to enforce a rule that women students must not leave town without permission. One day she spied six Oberlin undergraduates-three men, three women-standing on the outskirts of town trying to thumb a ride. "Hop in, boys," she called, stopping her car. "I'm sorry I can't take you girls along too-but you know the college rules...
...thrust the dagger. His ideas may or may not coincide with those of the Allied high command, and with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with him a portfolio of thumb-worn maps. They are maps of the coast of northern France, where Hitler's Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt waits with his guns...
...could master such higher mathematics. But this week Selective Service Headquarters issued a new, long-awaited directive which should make the job simpler. Degrees of draftability were boiled down to seven rule-of-thumb classes replacing old classifications. In order of draftability they are: 1) single men without dependents; 2) single men with dependents but not contributing to the war effort; 3) single men with dependents, contributing to the war effort; 4) married men, living with their wives, but not contributing to the war effort; 5) married men, living with their wives, contributing to the war effort; 6) married...